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Craft Symposium welcomes you in Rauland!

Bring warm clothes and winter boots, eagerness to learn, and meet fellow craft students – Norway awaits!

From 18 to 22 March 2024, the international NordTradCraft network’s intensive course Craft Symposium will bring together about 70 participants from seven universities in four countries.

The symposium is the most important and voluminous part of the network’s activities since the establishment of the network in 2019.

The 3rd Craft Symposium is hosted by the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) Campus Rauland, welcoming students and teachers from University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy (Viljandi, Estonia), Pallas University of Applied Sciences (Tartu, Estonia), University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu, Finland), University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland), Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden) and University of Gothenburg (Mariestad, Sweden).

The symposium will feature workshops, seminars and lectures on this year’s main theme: Identity Through Craft. Craft students and teachers from each participating institution have the opportunity to get involved in organising the event and supervising the workshops.

The Nordic Council of Ministers supports the event through the Nordplus Higher Education Programme (project NPHE-2023). The symposium is part of the participating students’ studies in their home institutions. The Erasmus+ programme funds some of the participating teachers’ mobility.